Right now Google is testing a new Trending section, a new app interface, Netbanking for Indian users, and other minor tweaks in the Play Store. Maybe one day Google will only test one new feature at once, but that day is not today. For some users, the Play Store now shows the install size of an application on the overflow menu, as well as next to the application's name on its own page.

This seems like the next part of Google's march into India and similar smartphone markets, where users may be hesitant to use much cellular data (or just have slow download speeds). It hasn't gone live on any of my devices yet, but let us know in the comments if you can spot it.

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This has been available for atleast a month now for my phones. I thought it was a common feature. I am from Kolkata, India

Gaurav Chandiramani

Same. I've been seeing this since a while now.

Mumbai, India.

ihsan ışık

Same here. Turkish Play Store.

Nilotpal

Same here, have it on my nexus since a month!

IG

Revolutionary.

Steve

But when will the Play Store show what version number of an app you have installed on your phone? Still can't believe you have to dig into that app details screen on android just to see the installed version number.

I'm talking about the app version (not the Play Store app, the individual app you would be updating or viewing like Google Maps, Gmail, Action Launcher, etc.). For example, it is easy to see that the current version of Action Launcher is 3.11.4 on the Play Store (bottom of app detail screen on play store), but you can't see which version of the app you have currently installed.

What's new about it? Just the word Installing added above? The rest looks the same to me.

Denholm Willmer

No, this was when the app was installing onto the phone. It had already finished downloading before I took this screenshot. In the past I have only seen the "Installing" with no progress bar or percentage, after it finished downloading. Assuming it's a Nougat or Pixel thing with large apps

Whaaat, are you saying it's got a 2nd progress bar basically, and it shows the copy progress? I find it almost impossible to believe, but it would make me so happy if so.

Denholm Willmer

Yes that's what I'm saying. The copy rate was much faster than my 3.5Mbps internet connection could achieve so I instantly knew that this was the installation part. I'll see if I can uninstall and reinstall and record it

Ok, I just tested with this specific app, and I think this is what's happening. It has multiple files to install, so it starts downloading them one by one. You can watch the progress of each individual part in notifications.

For example, at 380MB, it stopped downloading whatever part it was downloading, the notification went away and it said Installing, except the 380MB/724MB disappeared. In your shot, it was still showing.

But what happened after was it started downloading a new file and the progress bar continued at the point. I could watch this 2nd file being downloaded in the notifications again.

If you can show a screencast showing what you were implying was happening, I'll be truly amazed. Otherwise, I think it's just a typical multi file installation.

Denholm Willmer

Re-downloading now. After 380MB the download stopped, and the notification went away. Nothing else happened until about 30 seconds later when it started downloading a second file and the notification came back. I noticed something similar happen at the 222MB mark, but it continued downloading the same file after a similar 30 second pause. I haven't seen the "Installing" word anywhere yet

RNTMPX

And they removed the size in Play Store for web!

Rod

A welcomed change. When I'm on mobile data I always have to dig into the app's details to see how big it is before downloading.

Haley Parrot

Nope, can't see any of the updates on my phone yet. But the download size thing has been around, insofar as I know, on tablets for quite a while. Been seeing it on my nephew's Lenovo tablet for months now.